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Uhm... "Berlin feels like a European Portland or an Austin or a Boulder" Austin: 785'000 people. Portland: 570'000 people. Boulder: 94'000 people. Berlin: 3.

• fedd 15y ago
  i like how they compare... btw, those who want to become the second San Francisco, will always be the second. better to be first yourself. when people say, like, Chicago is an American Berlin or like that
• whakojacko 15y ago
  That's not quite a fair comparison since the area of Berlin is well over double that of Portland, for example. Those 3 US cities are all still noticeably less dense, however.
• lucasjung 15y ago
  I grew up in Berlin, starting a few months after I was born up until the summer between the fifth and sixth grades. When we moved back to the states, I was completely shocked at how the cities felt, because they didn't feel anything like Berlin. Since Berlin was the only city I really knew well, I had naively assumed that all cities were like Berlin; it took me a while to realize that Berlin was the exception, not the normal case. But there were places in America that reminded me of Berlin: places right on the line between "large town" and "small city." Not exactly like Berlin, but a very similar feel. Of course, all of this was from the perspective of an eleven/twelve-year-old, so I could have been missing a lot of stuff that an adult would have noticed. Also, for almost the entire time I lived there, the wall was up and I would imagine that things have changed significantly since then. We left after the wall came down but not long enough after for things to have changed significantly yet--the summer before official re-unification, IIRC.